Holcad - Westminster College

a-1 front - holcad (24”) 20060816cad
YELLOW
0% 5%
5% 10%
10%20%
20%
30%
30%
40%40%
50%50%
60% 60%
70% 80%
70%90%
80%95%
90%100%
95% 100%
MAGENTA
CYAN
Holcad
The
Westminster College’s student newspaper
In this
edition...
BLACK
Friday,
September 5,
2008
New Wilmington, Pa.
8 pages
Volume MMVIII
Number 1
since 1884
Class of 2012 starts off huge
Fresh Start staff greets record number of fresmen with welcoming activities
By Derek Deremer
Staff Writer
Holcad 101 with the
Editor-in-Chief
See Page A-2
Debut of Titan turf
See Page B-1
Contributed Photo
Students attend Obama
event
See Page A-4
Return of WC Cribs
See Page B-4
Fresh Start staffers helped over 450 freshmen move in on Friday, Sept. 22.
39
Number of students who sang in
the Fresh Start
choir
Weekend Weather
provided by Weather.com
Friday
Isolated T-Storms
83/61
Saturday
Showers
77/55
Sunday
AM Clouds/PM Sun
76/54
Check us out
online at
holcad.com
Inside
A&E
Calendar
Campus News
Crossword
Features
Opinion
Outside the Bubble
Sports
-
B-2
B-3
A-4
B-3
B-4
A-2
A-3
B-1
The Holcad is provided free-ofcharge to students, faculty, staff,
and visitors of Westminster College.
Please take one. If you would like
additional copies, please contact
the editorial staff.
land said. “Another change to the
schedule included more downtime
for the first years to do what they
pleased.”
Orientation was not limited to
mind-numbing class sessions; the
Fresh Start staff also put together
evening entertainment for the
freshmen, one example being Saturday night’s late night. A hodgepodge of skits performed by the
staff brought laughs to the students, from the shenanigans of
Napoleon Dynamite to Tyra
Banks.
Freshmen Devon
Struthers and Sierra Beecher described how they enjoyed the production, both summing up the
show as “pure laughter” and “fun.”
The climax of the Fresh Start
program came on Sunday, August
24 with a Reggae Dance sponsored by the Diversity Department
in conjunction with Fresh Start.
See Fresh Start, page A-4
Campus buildings receive facelifts
By Laura Henry
Staff Writer
Campus Statistic
of the Week
On Friday, Aug. 22, the campus
welcomed more than 450 firstyears to the college community;
it is the largest class in more
than15 years to join the
campus.
The students were introduced
to a world of higher education, initially received by an overwhelming welcome from Fresh Start volunteers and Residence Life staff.
The staff’s friendliness and willingness to help the freshmen unpack
gave the parents reassurance for
the welfare of their children. Fresh
Start unloaded car after car from
8:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., receiving
assistance from the football team.
“It was well organized and surprisingly not overwhelming.” Derrick Trump, a Russell Resident Assistant, said. “The parents
appreciated the help and it gave
the college a positive first impression.”
The Fresh Start team had been
preparing for the class of 2012
since the Sunday prior to their arrival, organizing activities and entertainment for the four days of
Fresh Start orientation. The student Fresh Start coordinators, Bridget Roth and Lane McFarland, led
more than 70 students in Fresh
Start, in one of the most successful
years of the program.
“It went exceptionally smooth,”
Roth said. “I am very proud of this
year’s staff.”
Following the convocation, the
freshman class were divided into
their Inquiry classes and taken to
the quad, Eichenhauer field, and
the amphitheater to participate in
a series of ice breakers and activities with the Titan Traverse Staff.
This was the first time that the
freshmen were immediately taken
to Titan Traverse activities, a
switch that is considered to be a
successful adjustment to the schedule.
“We moved the book discussion to Sunday to make the conversations flow easier because the
groups had time to bond before
beginning a discussion,” McFar-
Improvements have been made
and are still underway, as renovations take place in McGill Library,
Memorial Field, Harold Burry Stadium and resident halls including
Eichenauer, Galbreath, Hillside, Jeffers and Russell.
Renovations started in Dec.
2006 when the library began its reformation, which will be dedicated
during homecoming on Oct. 17.
The renovations to the resident
halls began in Dec. 2007. Many of
the resident hall projects are finished; however, all renovations will
not be complete until Aug. 2009.
Physical Plant Craft Unit Supervisor Michael Cosgrove played a
large role in the resident hall renovations.
“Everything is going along really well and the improvements
made were all needed,” Cosgrove
said. “I feel the biggest improvement was made in the work done
at Jeffers. The bathrooms are really nice compared to what they
were.”
In addition to the bathrooms,
Jeffers received new carpet in the
hallways and lounge areas. Many
other renovations have been made
in the resident halls as well. Like
Jeffers, Galbreath underwent bathroom renovations, including new
showers, floors, toilets and counter
top replacements.
The Hillside porch ceiling and
posts were repainted, along with
the building exterior. The main
project in Hillside is the completely
renovated lobby to be finished Oct.
1. The lobby will receive all new
furniture, carpet, paint and improvements to the fireplace.
New windows and desks were
placed in Shaw, and the ceiling
tiles and common areas were
painted in Eichenauer.
Russell received the most improvements of the resident halls.
Assistant Dean Gina Vance stated
that Russell has the best before
and after results. Russell bathrooms received new counters, mirrors and floor repairs. New windows were put in, and the lobby
was fully renovated with paint, furniture, a television and a suspended ceiling. The laundry room was
relocated to the ground floor. Renovations to the North and South
entrances were also made. The
stone wall at the North entrance
was cleaned, the patio and lighting
were repaired and a railing near
the handicap ramp was installed.
Work done to the South entrance
included roof repairs, stone wall
cleaning and repairs and new
lighting and paint. There will be
further improvements made next
summer.
“It has been exciting to see
some buildings have closure,”
Vance said. “I am very excited to
see some of the fruits of our labors,
the lobby in Russell and Shaw’s
functional windows. I am also
very anxious to see the Hillside
lobby. It’s the project I am most
proud of because most of the plans
came directly from students.”
Associate Professor and Head
Librarian Molly Spinney explained
that before renovations to the library began, precautions had to be
made. The architect, construction
workers and library staff were very
concerned in preserving the historical value of the building. One of
the main concerns was the movement of the entrance. Workers
were very careful to match the
wood and stone work and also preserve the McGill Library stone sign
made in the 1960s.
“The new entrance opening was
actually the original entrance of
the building dedicated in 1936,”
Spinney said. “We looked at the
old blueprints of the building and
the move was a spacious and artistic idea.”
By moving the library entrance,
a seminar room was built in its
place, which the library has never
had. Spinney is very excited about
the changes taking place. She explained that painting the ceilings
has made the first floor brighter,
and removing the reference room
wall brings an inviting feel.
“I think the renovations have
been terrific,” Spinney said. “It has
improved the functionality of the
building, increased capacity, and
made the collection so much more
user friendly.”
Photo by Stephanie Chaffee
Renovations to Memorial Field
and Harold Burry Stadium includ- Construction continues
The location of the McGill library entrance is just one of
ed lighting and artificial turf. In
addition, the Joseph B. Fusco Plaza, the changes taking place during the renovation. The library
entranceway and area around the dedication is scheduled to take place on October 17.
existing stadium is also under construction and has yet to be finished.
Further renovations are to be
completed by next summer and
will take place in Browne, Hillside,
Ferguson and Eichenauer.
Campus officials tackle
national drinking issue
Former student dies in kayaking accident
Twenty-four year old Isaac Ludwig killed by rapids in Tennessee
By Lindsey Nuzzo
Editor-in-Chief
Isaac Ludwig, 2004 graduate,
died on Thursday, Aug. 30 while
kayaking in Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee.
The 27-year old Ludwig started
out on a trek down a tributary of
the Little Pigeon River with friends
Tuesday. Rough waters from relentless rain separated him from
the group and deterred his friends
from continuing.
The next morning, another
group of kayakers found his body
two feet off shore, revealing the
height of the water at the time of
his venture.
"The river was used by a lot of
kayakers during this rain period,"
a park official said. "The number
of kayakers has increased over the
years, and with improved skills
and better equipment being made,
people are able to go into many
streams that weren't attempted
popularly before."
Ludwig was an experienced
whitewater kayaking guide and
worked with a Tennessee paddle
sports company called Rafting in
the Smokies. Ludwig graduated
with a degree in public relations.
As a student, he was active in Titan Radio, The Holcad and Green
Party. His claim to fame while
here was his 2003 summer internship with MTV.
Mr. Brad Weaver, communications studies instructor, had Isaac
in class. He recalled his passion for
kayaking, even then.
“I reconnected with him recently through Facebook,” Weaver said.
“I saw all of his kayaking ventures
and remember thinking he was
exactly where he wanted to be.”
A memorial was held in his
hometown of Salineville, OH on
Tuesday Sept. 2.
Photo from Titanradio.net
Isaac Ludwig
By Jessica Davis
Staff Writer
More than 100 university presidents signed a proposal that suggested lowering the legal drinking
age to decrease instances of alcohol abuse on college campuses.
Approximately one year ago, a
cause called the Amethyst Initiative began encouraging college
heads to sign a proposal supporting a change in the legal drinking
age. One-hundred and nineteen
presidents and chancellors from
colleges and universities, such as
Duke, Dartmouth and John Hopkins, suggested that lowering the
drinking age may reduce bingedrinking.
“I think it would both help and
hurt,” Director of Campus Safety
William Brandt said. “If the students could go and drink at eighteen and do it responsibly that’s
one thing, but that may also promote more drinking.”
In opposition to the Amethyst
Initiative, Mothers Against Drunk
Driving and the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration said
that lowering the legal drinking
age will increase traffic fatalities
and cases of alcohol abuse. MADD
acknowledged the problems associated with drinking on college
campuses, but did not find the
Amethyst Initiative as a solution to
these problems. Representatives of
MADD said presidents that have
signed the proposal have given
permission to their students under
21 years old to drink no matter
what the legal drinking age.
“I don’t think it [lowering the
drinking age] would change the
dynamic of the residence halls,”
Resident Director Jenna Retort
said. “Most people are respectful of
college policies.”
See Drinking Age, Page a-4
OPINION - holcad (24”) 20060829cad
YELLOW
0% 5%
5% 10%
10%20%
20%
30%
30%
40%40%
50%50%
60% 60%
70% 80%
70%90%
80%95%
90%100%
95% 100%
Page A-2
MAGENTA
September 5, 2008
CYAN
BLACK
The Holcad — Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.
Opinion
RANT New year, new attitude, same Holcad tradition
& RAVE
Welcome back, everyone! To the
freshmen, welcome to wonderful
Westminnie, there are what— like,
460 billion of you this year? Just
Resume the fetal position... This is kidding – we are glad to have you.
I hope everyone’s first two
not a drill!
weeks of classes have been only
the greatest and that you are enSCRAW!!!
joying campus life. I’m Lindsey, a
I just don’t have the patience or senior public relations major, writing minor, and Editor-in-Chief of
the finger power
The Holcad. I started writing for
this fine newspaper as a freshman
Yum.... Tub tasters! I missed you. journalism student and haven’t
looked back since.
Do I look crappy enough for you?
As this year’s Editor- in-Chief
I’ve set a number of goals for our
That Just Happened!
newspaper. I can’t guarantee I’ll
achieve them all; I don’t see The
Holcad becoming as popular as
I don’t care about your stars!
the New York Times anytime soon,
but you can’t fault me for dreamYou can be a little ridiculous
ing big.
One nagging goal I’m pretty
He’s a Pirate!
sure I can accomplish is to give our
readers a better idea of The Hol1,000 POUND LADY!
cad’s history and some insight to
I hear R. Tad Greig marked time how it operates. The Holcad was
started in 1884 as a literary magato infinity... Twice!
zine, eventually turned newspaper.
you do. I DO!!
Walk off that wedgie
Lindsey Nuzzo
Editor-in-Chief
Sports writer Irving “Bud” Mansell
was the first to refer to student-athletes as Titans when he wrote players on the men’s basketball teams
of the 1920s. So I guess you could
say we invented the Titan mascot.
Yeah, we are that cool
Staff-wise, our paper is entirely
student run, with the exception of
a faculty adviser who oversees all
processes in a very hands-off manner. We have about 40 students on
staff taking on varying tasks to
make this thing work. Now, I
know the question burning in
everyone’s mind – what in creation
is a Holcad? It was actually derived
from a Greek word meaning ‘ship
A major decision
As four hundred sixty five new
students enter the classrooms this
year, each student must face a maLOOK AT THIS KANGAROO!
jor decision.
Perhaps this decision came easYou’re crazy and you have a lisp. ily for some, trivially for others, or
maybe not at all. The question that
You need to calm that down.
is mandated on all students is:
His pants are so high so his tie “what major shall I choose?” Unfortunately, “exploratory” is not a
can be that short
recognized major that will lead to
a job at any point in the future and
PROGRESSION
constantly changing majors becomes a costly mistake, as many
BLAH. BLAH. BLAH is code
students miss anticipated graduation in four years.
words for: GET THERE!
There are many paths to choose
from
and focusing on one interest
Anthropology has to go!
may seem impossible. What criteria should be considered? Passion
I sat in THIS chair for 10 minutes
and greed are two vivid words on
just to calm down!
opposite ends of the spectrum that
are sensible factors that can be
Sheetz; it’s where Tad goes.
used to decide a major.
Either one should do what he
or she loves, or one should pick a
Can we use the parrot one?
path with the best pay after graduation. Although most decisions are
Where did the trees go?
probably a mixture of passion for a
subject and greed for wealth, this
Oh my gosh! How did you do
article is concerned more with the
that?
latter.
The purpose of attending colWe’re all a little out of the bubble lege and paying tuition is to invest
in oneself. Sure making friends,
I love the Amish
being involved in campus activities, joining a sport or club, and
Dear Library, I can’t wait to go in having a beer or two (or ten) is all
part of the college experience, but
your new front door.
paying thousands of dollars for an
I’m so excited to go on the clipper education must be done at a costeffective standpoint.
After college graduation, loan
And I’m out.
payments begin, and a whole new
lifestyle materializes. Being a senior this year, I cannot believe how
ant to Rant & fast the time has transpired. Four
years may seem substantial to an
Rave? Email incoming freshman, but in the big
The Holcad picture, that is not much time to
get life organized. Therefore, it’s
with RNR as the subject. important from the beginning to
be concentrated on future goals.
4,000 Scarecrows!
W
Andrew Brown
Columnist
The culture of America is driven
by the concept of money. Money
may not buy happiness, but happiness is hardly accessible for a
broke person living in an American culture.
An important aspect of life is to
always be financially responsible.
Keep a tab on money accounts,
have a plan to pay off those college
loans, and invest in a 401K today! I
suppose this advice might be
overkill and sarcastically expressed, but I will end with a list
that might influence students who
have yet to choose a major.
Following is a list of fifty college
majors. The majors are ranked
based on the expected salary for a
2008 graduate. Two columns, starting median salary and mid-career
median salary, are given, but the
ranking is based on the mid-career
salary. Fifteen and one half years
constitute a mid-career salary.
The statistics were calculated by
PayScale Inc. and included all colleges and universities across the
nation. Salaries that were eligible
for the statistics were any United
States employees with a bachelor’s
degree as the highest degree in
one particular major.
Andrew is a senior chemistry major, marketing minor who loves running so
much that he is a member
of the Cross Country team
and is in Chemistry Club.
Additionally he enjoys eating corn on the cob in his
free time.
of burden.’ If you wanted to get really serious, I guess that would
make me that captain of the ship.
Another goal this shipmaster
has is share our objectives and
concerns with our readers, students and staff, alike.
Students – this paper is, in
every sense, for you about you and
by you. We want you to contribute.
Send letters to the editor, send rant
& raves (the list of phrases to my
left.) Send anything you think people might want to see – you never
know what we will use. This paper is your voice and I want it to be
booming.
Faculty – I understand that as
ultimate intellectuals you may love
to go through our newspaper with
a red pen and circle all of the mistakes. But before you mark these
pages with crimson colored ink
please understand this – this newspaper is a learning experience for
all who contribute to it. Stories are
not graded or corrected by professors before going in the paper.
Contrary to popular belief and despite and incessant demand, we
don’t have a journalism program
at this school. Chemistry, math,
public relations and political science are just a few of the majors of
choice for our staff. We may not all
be journalism aficionados, but
then again, that’s what a liberal
arts education is about, right?
Please be enthusiastic to be a
part of our paper by granting interviews and providing information
to reporters.
My very first interview as a
journalism student was with, now
retired, English professor, Dr.
James Perkins. I remembered entering his office nervously, hoping I
would ask all the right questions
and take all the right notes.
It wasn’t a perfect article. If I
looked back on that article today, I
would probably cringe and so
would he. But, then again, maybe
that’s a good thing. If Dr. Perkins
never would have been gracious
enough to sit down with me that
day and tell me all about his
Robert Penn Warren books, I may
have never grown as a writer and
a certainly wouldn’t have ended up
Editor-in-Chief. Ultimately, faculty,
we want your support
My final goal(at least that I’m
mentioning here) is to better connect with my audience. As a public relations major, my main focus
is my readers –you. As a reader
and seeker of the news, I yearn to
discover what you want from The
Holcad. Keep an eye out in the
near future for some form of a survey, asking what you, as a reader,
want to see. Take advantage of the
chance to control what you see in
this paper.
Ultimately, I want to bring you
the news ethically, efficiently, correctly and hopefully have a little
fun along the way. It may not always be smooth sailing, but I want
as many of you as possible with us
for the voyage. Ahoy!
Majors (by Salary)
Starting Median Salary
Mid-Career Median Salary
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Economics
Physics
Computer Science
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Math
Physician Assistant
Civil Engineering
Construction
Philosophy
International Relations
Chemistry
Marketing
Geology
Political Science
Accounting
Architecture
Information Technology (IT)
Business Management
Agriculture
History
Communications
Film
Nursing
Journalism
Art History
Biology
English
Health Care Administration
Psychology
Graphic Design
Sociology
Drama
Criminal Justice
Music
Spanish
Education
Religion
$63,200
$60,900
$50,100
$50,300
$55,900
$57,700
$57,900
$45,400
$74,300
$53,900
$53,700
$39,900
$40,900
$42,600
$40,800
$43,500
$40,800
$46,000
$41,600
$49,100
$43,000
$42,600
$39,200
$38,100
$37,900
$54,200
$35,600
$35,800
$38,800
$38,000
$38,800
$35,900
$35,700
$36,500
$35,900
$35,000
$35,900
$34,000
$34,900
$34,100
$107,000
$103,000
$98,600
$97,300
$95,500
$94,700
$93,600
$92,400
$91,700
$90,500
$88,900
$81,200
$80,900
$79,900
$79,600
$79,500
$78,200
$77,100
$76,800
$74,800
$72,100
$71,900
$71,000
$70,000
$68,500
$67,000
$66,700
$64,900
$64,800
$64,700
$60,600
$60,400
$59,800
$58,200
$56,900
$56,300
$55,000
$53,100
$52,000
$52,000
Lindsey is a senior public relations major, writing minor.
She is a member of the Lady
Titans Track & Field and Sigma Kappa sorority, and she
swears her iPod reads her
mind.
Want to write a letter to the editor?
Here are the rules.
Letters to the editor are published weekly, as space permits. All letters must be submitted by email
to The Holcad by 12 p.m. Monday to make the Wednesday edition. All letters must be limited to
400 words, typed, and include the author’s name and a phone number for confirmation. Letters
must be free from offensive language, personal attacks and libelous or potentially libelous statements.
The Holcad reserves the right to reject any letter. No letter will be edited when factually incorrect or in
need of contexual clarification. Rather, an editor’s note will be included. Grammar and spelling errors
will also not be corrected. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The Holcad will not print
anonymous letters.
E-mail letter to: [email protected]. Don’t forget to check us out online!
www.theholcad.com
The Holcad
Westminster College’s student newspaper since 1884
357 McKelvey Campus Center
Box 157, New Wilmington, Pa., 16172
general: (724) 946-7224 ads: (724) 946-7223
[email protected] fax: (724) 946-6223
Read each week’s edition online at holcad.com
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
News Editor
Layout Editor
Photography Editor
Outside the Bubble Editor
Sports Editor
Sports Writers
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Arts & Entertainment Writers
Lindsey Nuzzo
Shannon Richter
Christina Alducka
Danielle McCullough
Stephanie Chaffee
Katie West
Brandon Phillian
Corey Kendall, Melissa Kramer
Chris Lehberger
Max Muska, Ben Portz, Brett
Gerthoffer, Levi Sanchez
Features Editor
Megan Hoffman
Copy Editors
Rachel Burkot, Sarah Byerly,
Nicole Piszczor, Sarah Simon, Amanda Miller
Staff Writers
Jessica Davis, Laura Henry, Derek Deremer,
Travis Gulling, Andrew Brown
Photographers
Emily Winn, Amanda Miller, Derek Deremer
Operations Manager
Max Muska
Advertising Managers
Mandie Zoller, Janie Ingersoll
Distribution Manager
Andrew Brown
Faculty Advisor
Mrs. Delores Natale
Outside the Bubble - holcad (24”) 060826cad
YELLOW
0% 5%
5% 10%
10%20%
20%
30%
30%
40%40%
50%50%
60% 60%
70% 80%
70%90%
80%95%
90%100%
95% 100%
The Holcad — Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.
MAGENTA
CYAN
September 5, 2008
BLACK
Page A-3
Outside the Bubble
Ripped from the wire
REGIONAL
Verdict ok’d in case of Pa. girl’s fire hose death
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A
Pennsylvania appeals court upheld
a $4.5 million jury verdict Tuesday
against a truck manufacturer over
an accident near Pittsburgh four
years ago in which a six-pound fire
hose nozzle became a fatal projectile.
The lawsuit was filed by two
families over an August 2004 incident in Coraopolis in which a hose
dangling from a moving fire truck
became stuck under a parked car,
then whipped around and struck
two 10-year-old girls standing on a
nearby lawn.
Erin Schmidt died of head injuries and her close friend and
classmate, Joeylynne Jeffress, suf-
fered extensive injuries but survived.
The plaintiffs also include three
witnesses to the accident: Erin's
mother, Joyce A. Schmidt; Erin's
13-year-old sister, Lindsay; and
Joeylynne's 14-year-old sister, Lauren.
A divided three-judge Superior
Court panel said state law allows
bystanders who witness injury to a
close relative to collect damages
for emotional distress under certain circumstances.
"The courts have generally concluded that the definition of
'physical harm' encompasses injury that solely manifests itself in
the form of emotional shock and
disturbance," wrote Judge Cheryl
Lynn Allen for the majority.
The court also ruled that Sinor
Manufacturing Inc. of Clinton,
Okla., which purchased at least
parts of the company that manufactured the fire truck, inherited liability for the accident. Sinor is
now known as Freightliner Specialty Vehicles Inc.
John Gismondi, attorney for the
plaintiffs, said Sinor was willing to
"trade on" manufacturer Boardman Co.'s reputation for business
purposes after it acquired Boardman.
"If they were pretending to be
Boardman in public, then they
have to take responsibility for
what the truck did to the girls," he
said. "They can't have it both
ways."
Phone messages seeking comment from Freightliner Specialty
Vehicles president Tim Sinor and
the company's attorney, Kim M.
Watterson, were not immediately
returned Tuesday.
The plaintiffs earlier reached a
$500,000 civil settlement with the
Coraopolis Volunteer Fire Department.
Gismondi said Joeylynne has
undergone major facial and eye
surgery and has scars but has been
able to return to school.
Amish draw tourists and
myths to Lawrence County
NEW WILMINGTON, Lawrence
County-- An Elizabethtown College report says the Amish population in the United States has
doubled in the past 16 years. Locally, Lawrence County is home to
the third-largest old-order Amish
population. Assistant Director of
the Lawrence County Tourism
Agency Janet Fallotico says that's
a benefit for the county as the
Amish draw in tourists to visit
communities such as New Wilmington and Volant. She also says
old-order Amish women have
unique distinctions which interest
tourists. She tells Titan Radio
tourists are eager to learn even
lawsuit was filed, it said the FBI's the smallest details about Amish
Terrorist Screening Center, "for life.
both national security and personal privacy reasons," does not confirm or deny the existence of any
name on the watch lists it maintains.
DEP revokes permit for New
Castle tire recycling company
NEW CASTLE, Lawrence County-The Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection has
yanked the permit for a Lawrence
County tire recycling company
saying Lion Enterprises 7/11failed
went over the limit for tires it
could keep. The state also says
the company failed to keep proper
records. The DEP wants the company to forfeit a $25,000 bond for
the violations.
Muslim pilot from Pa. allowed to resume flying
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) _ A
commercial airline pilot who alleges his job was threatened because his name was on a secret terrorist watch list is being allowed to
resume flying, according to a letter
his lawyers released Tuesday. The
pilot claims he was put on the list
because he is Muslim.
their names were placed on the list
because of their Muslim faith, in
violation of their constitutional
rights.
other media from their home in
eastern Pennsylvania, have said
they have no criminal records or
ties to terrorists.
Scherfen's lawyers filed papers
Tuesday in U.S. District Court in
Scranton to withdraw a related request for a court order to stop
Scherfen's scheduled Oct. 1 termiThe two-sentence letter from nation. Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie
Colgan Air Inc. to the federal has scheduled a Sept. 18 hearing
Transportation Security Adminis- on that request.
tration confirmed that the Manas"The immediate harm to Erich
sas, Va.-based regional carrier was
is
over,"
said Witold J. Walczak, leallowing Erich Scherfen to return
gal
director
of the American Civil
to work. It did not mention any
Liberties
Union
of Pennsylvania.
watch list or the reason that the
company suspended Scherfen in "He's back at work."
April.
Scherfen, 37, a Gulf War veteran,
had
worked for Colgan for about a
Scherfen, a New Jersey native
who converted to Islam in 1994, year when the company told him
and his wife, a native of Pakistan he was a "positive match" on a list
who became a naturalized U.S. cit- maintained by the TSA and could
izen in 1980, sued the federal gov- no longer work as a pilot, accordernment last month. They claim ing to the lawsuit. Both he and his
wife, who sells Islamic books and
Mark A. Dombroff, the Colgan
lawyer who wrote the letter to the
TSA, declined Tuesday to answer
questions involving federal watch
lists or explain why the letter was
written. He confirmed that Scherfen will be allowed to resume
working as a pilot once his flying
credentials are current, but said he
did not know whether Scherfen is
actually back in the cockpit.
INTERNATIONAL
Since 2006, Scherfen and his
wife have been subjected to
searches, questioning and detention at airports and border crossings, according to their lawsuit.
The Schuylkill County couple says
ticket agents and others made
vague references to their names
being on lists, but there was no
Colgan Air operates as Conti- clear explanation for the extra
nental Connection, United Express scrutiny.
and US Airways Express.
Walczak said Scherfen's lawyers
A spokeswoman for the airline will press ahead with the main
did not respond to telephone or e- lawsuit.
mail queries.
The couple "still don't know
The Justice Department has de- what lists they are on, why they
clined to comment on the lawsuit. are on them or how to get off
Munich, Germany (AP) - searchers found that the difference
In a statement issued when the them," he said.
Women typically get heart disease for men was about six years for
much later than men, but not if women about 14 years.
they smoke, researchers said TuesPrevious studies looking at a
day.
possible gender difference have
In fact, women who smoke been inconclusive.
have heart attacks more than a
Doctors have long suspected
dozen years earlier than women
who don't smoke, Norwegian doc- that female hormones protect
women against heart disease. EsAfter touring an emergency leans on buses and trains provided tors reported in a study presented trogen is thought to raise the levels
center and flooded-out farmland, by the city. Officials did not expect to the European Society of Cardiol- of good cholesterol as well as enPresident Bush praised the govern- to begin bringing them back until ogy. For men, the gap is not so dra- abling blood vessel walls to relax
matic; male smokers have heart
ment response to Gustav as "excel- this weekend.
attacks about six years earlier than more easily, thus lowering the
lent," but he urged utility compachances of a blockage.
Inside
the
shelters,
the
days
of
men who don't smoke.
nies in neighboring states to send
living
on
a
cot
with
strangers
on
all
extra manpower to Louisiana if
Grundtvig said that smoking
"This is not a minor difference,"
sides was taking a toll. At a church
they could spare it.
might
make women go through
in Montgomey, Ala., an argument said Dr. Silvia Priori, a cardiologist menopause earlier, leaving them
"One of the key things that in a parking lot between two sis- at the Scientific Institute in Pavia, less protected against a heart atneeds to happen is that they've got ters over the gas money needed to Italy. "Women need to realize they tack. With rising rates of smoking
to get electricity up here in return to New Orleans erupted are losing much more than men in women — compared with falling
Louisiana," Bush said.
into a fight that ended with slashed when they smoke," she said. Priori rates in men — Grundtvig said that
tires, a punch in the face and an ar- was not connected to the research. doctors expect to see increased
The administration's swift reac- rest.
Dr. Morten Grundtvig and col- heart disease in women.
tion was a significant change from
leagues
from the Innlandet Hospiits response three years ago to Kat"I wanted to give her some"Smoking might erase the natrina, a far more devastating storm. thing," Samantha Williams said, tal Trust in Lillehammer, Norway, ural advantage that women have,"
Roughly 1,600 people were killed, holding her swelling lip. "But she based their study on data from said Dr. Robert Harrington, a pro1,784 patients admitted for a first
and the White House was harshly wanted so much more."
heart attack at a hospital in Lille- fessor of medicine at Duke Univercriticized for stepping in too late.
sity and spokesman for the AmeriFive people were arrested hammer.
can College of Cardiology.
To residents who lived through Wednesday in only the second case
Their study found that the men
Katrina, that failure was still fresh. of attempted looting in New OrDoctors aren't yet sure if other
leans since the city emptied. Wor- on average had their first heart at"What do I care if Bush is visit- ried about potential looting of va- tack at age 72 if they didn't smoke, cardiac risk factors like cholesterol
ing? I'm still trying to get my cant properties, Nagin said the city and at 64 if they did. Women in the and obesity also affect women difhouse back together from Katrina," would maintain its dusk-to-dawn study had their first heart attack at ferently.
housekeeper Flora Raymond said. curfew indefinitely.
age 81 if they didn't smoke, and at
"The difference in how smok"This time things went better, but
age 66 if they did.
ing affects women and men is prowe still need help from the last
There were fresh reminders
That works out to eight and 15 found," Harrington said. "Unless
time."
that the 2008 hurricane season is
women don't smoke or quit, they
far from over. Tropical Storm Han- years, respectively, for men and
In the days before Gustav ar- na pounded flood-plagued Haiti women. After adjusting for other risk ending up with the same terririved, nearly 2 million people were before taking an expected turn heart risk factors like blood pres- ble diseases as men, only at a
evacuated from the Louisiana north for the U.S. coast. Farther out sure, cholesterol and diabetes, re- much earlier age."
coast. Only 16 deaths were attrib- to sea, Hurricane Ike spun westuted to the storm in the U.S.
ward across the Atlantic and could
Nearly 80,000 people remained arrive in the Bahamas on Sunday
in shelters in Louisiana and sur- as a hurricane.
rounding states. An estimated
Tropical Storm Josephine was
18,000 people fled from New Or- out there, too.
Smoking
riskier to
women’s hearts
than men’s
NATIONAL
New Orleans reluctantly opens doors after Gustav
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Thousands of people who fled Hurricane Gustav forced the city to reluctantly open its doors
Wednesday, but nearly 1.2 million
homes and businesses across
Louisiana were still without electricity, and officials said it could
take as long as a month to fully restore power.
lay. We absolutely need to quicken
the pace at which power is restored," Gov. Bobby Jindal said.
Within hours of returning to his
suburban home, Paul Braswell
was sweating over an outdoor grill
as he cooked the chicken and deer
sausage he stored in his freezer
alongside gallon-size blocks of ice
before evacuating with his family
As residents came home to to Mississippi.
New Orleans, President Bush re"We don't have any power, and
turned to the site of one of the
we
don't know when it'll come
biggest failures of his presidency to
back
on, so we're going to eat all
show that the government had
we
can
until it does," he said. "Toturned a corner since its bungled
morrow, we're boiling shrimp my
response to Katrina.
mom left in her freezer."
Faced with traffic backups on
Restoring power was critical to
paths into the city, Mayor Ray Nagin gave up checking ID badges reopening schools, businesses and
and automobile placards designed neighborhoods. Without electricity,
to keep residents out until early gas stations could not pump fuel,
Thursday. Those who returned and hospitals were running out of
said if the city was safe enough for fuel for generators.
repair crews and health care workSome places never lost power,
ers, it was safe enough for them, including the Superdome, where
too.
the Saints planned to open their
"People need to get home, need regular football season Sunday.
to get their houses straight and get
In Jefferson Parish, which also
back to work," said George John- reopened Wednesday, officials reson, who used back roads to sneak ported that most sewage-treatment
into the city. "They want to keep stations were out of service beyou out of your own property. cause there was no power. The
That's just not right."
parish urged residents not to flush
But once back at home, many toilets, wash clothes or dishes, or
people had no power and no idea even take showers out of concern
that the system might backup and
when it might return.
send sewage flowing in home and
"There is no excuse for the de- businesses.
Police seize
alligators in Brazil
Idaho wildfire reveals new stretch of Oregon Trail drug raid
BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ A wildfire are light depressions in the
that damaged or destroyed nearly ground, stretch across a field below
20 homes in Idaho last month also a ridge where the homes burned.
revealed remnants of the Oregon
The paths were discovered in
Trail.
satellite photographs taken days
Members of the Idaho Chapter after the fire.
of the Oregon-California Trails AsAssociation member Wally
sociation plan to mark portions of
Meyer
told the Idaho Statesman
the pioneer trail now visible after
that
the
last wagon through souththe Aug. 25 fire.
east Boise probably crossed the
Before the blaze, two parallel plain about 1890 on the property,
paths totaling about a half-mile now owned by the Idaho Power
had been covered by sagebrush Co., which is negotiating with the
and cheatgrass. The paths, which group to allow signs along the
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) _
The recent discovery is not a
Brazilian
police say they've literalmajor surprise, given what's
"We are happy to help with this known about the Oregon Trail's ly taken a bite out of crime.
historic effort," said Idaho Power route through Boise, Meyer said.
spokeswoman Anne Alenskis.
Officers raided raided the home
"Nobody's ever really looked of a drug dealer's mother-in-law
Investigators have concluded before," Meyer told The Associated
on Wednesday and found two allithat an equipment failure on one Press. "I've always kind of wongators, one of them about 6 feet
of the company's electricity lines dered. But it didn't pay to check
(almost 2 meters) long, said police
ignited the fire.
these because there was pretty tall inspector Ronaldo Oliveira.
During his 30-year career with sagebrush and growth there. But
Police speculated that traffickthe Bureau of Land Management, the Oregon Trail is always easy to
ers
used the jacarei alligators to
Meyer said he marked about 150 find after a fire."
help
them dispose of bodies and to
miles of migrant-trail remnants on
torture captured members of rival
public land in southwest Idaho.
newly found paths.
gangs, though they gave no evidence of anyone being eaten or
tortured.
Oliveira said the woman didn't
know the aminals were in her
house and she was not arrested.
The alligators were turned over
to the Rio zoo.
Police also arrested three men
while seizing several guns and a
small quantity of drugs during the
operation in the Coreia shantytown, Oliveira said.
Back of Section A - holcad (24”) 20060829cad
YELLOW
0% 5%
5% 10%
10%20%
20%
30%
30%
40%40%
50%50%
60% 60%
70% 80%
70%90%
80%95%
90%100%
95% 100%
Page A-4
MAGENTA
September 5, 2008
CYAN
BLACK
The Holcad — Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.
Campus News
SGA ready for
another school year
By Christina Alducka
News Editor
The Student Government Association is planning activities and
solving problems for the 20082009 school year.
SGA President Ashley Carnahan and her nine slate members
established their positions last semester after creating a platform.
This platform lists each slate member’s duties and goals for this
school year. Many ideas on the
platform come from SGA members and from students.
“We really want to try and continue to listen to the students,” Carnahan said.
SGA receives student complaints and inputs and then passes
them on to the appropriate department. SGA handles issues from
parking, to food, to lab hours. One
problem the slate hopes to resolve
is the computer lab hours of operation.
“They are not open late enough
for some students that need somewhere quiet to work,” Carnahan
said.
One goal SGA achieved this
school year is the TUB Smart Market Express. They worked with Jeff
Creveling and contributing students to get a cooler of premade
sandwiches and wraps for students
on the run. This section is located
on the opposite side of the main
lines in the TUB.
SGA hears students’ complaints
and concerns at their weekly meetings, through their e-mail and at
the Time of the Month. During the
Time of the Month, SGA sets up a
table in the TUB for students to
voice their complaints. SGA is also
planning on constructing an online
blog for students to access.
“It’s important to hear from students, because the 10 of us can’t
think of everything,” Vice President Jenna Cunningham said.
Students also aid in brainstorming ideas for campus events. SGA
plans to keep old traditions and
create new ones with this year’s
events and activities. This fall, the
organization will hold their traditional SGA Day with free food,
prizes and golf cart rides for students.
“It shows our appreciation for
the campus and student body,”
Carnahan said. “Westminster
wouldn’t be the same without the
students.”
SGA plans to hold Fall Fest on
October 24, to kick off Homecoming weekend. SGA also plans to
hold a powder puff game, followed
by a drive-in movie and bonfire.
SGA wants to conduct a better pep
rally this year for the football team.
“It brings more school spirit,”
Cunningham said. “The goal is to
keep new students on campus for
the weekend.”
Other possible SGA events include a trip to Cedar Point, a Winter Ball, a Pirate’s game outing and
VolleyRock.
The SGA also assists in granting money to school clubs and organizations. Each spring, SGA
holds audits and allocations where
each organization’s president can
ask for money.
This year’s slate includes President Ashley Carnahan, Vice President Jenna Cunningham, Secretary Jordan Flaim, Treasurer Ryan
Kirk, Financial Chair Ashley Stebor, Academics Chair Cory Mathias, Student Concerns Chair Jacob
Shaffer, Public Relations Chair
Sarah Geist, Special Events Chair
Aimee Gerber and Diversity Chair
Kylee Bennett.
Aside from the slate, SGA consists of 12 students from each class,
who are voted in by their classmates. Voting for the new SGA
freshman members ends on the
evening of Friday Sept. 5 in the
TUB.
The first SGA meeting will be
held at 7 p.m. on Sept. 10 in
Mueller Theater. Meetings are
open for all students to attend.
Each evening after the meeting,
Jordan Flaim sends an all campus
e-mail of the meeting’s minutes.
This notifies the campus of everything that occurred at the meeting
as well as upcoming events.
Marching band starts
on the right note
By Stephanie Chaffee
Photgraphy Editor
It was a week of early mornings, all-day practices in the sun
and cramming to memorize music
and drills. These are all characteristic of one thing: band camp.
Marching band members arrived on campus Friday, Aug. 15, to
prepare a half-time show for their
upcoming season.
“Overall, this year’s camp was a
great success and progressed very
smooth with everyone putting in
110 percent effort everyday from
morning until night,” field commander and senior Jon Nickel said.
Director Dr. R. Tad Greig, according to students’ requests, challenged the band with more complex drills and music. The
collection is rhythmically intense,
testing the band with unusual
marching times. The drills are also
full of intricate movements that
add a visual component that will
engage audiences.
“The drill and music is definitely a bit harder from previous years,
but the Titan Band has risen to the
challenge and are performing
wonderfully each time they take
the field,” band president and junior Erin Thompson said.
Audiences will also notice a difference in the size of this year’s
band. This is the largest band since
Greig has been the director, with
120 total members, 48 of which
are first year students.
First year students often have to
adjust to the marching style of the
Titan Band.
“It’s a more competitive nature.
The drill is more complex than
what I’m used to,” freshman Katie
Ellen John said.
However, some first year students feel differently about the difficulty of the music and the drills.
“I came from an extremely
competitive band, so it is much
more laid back here,” freshman
Jessica Geiger said.
Regardless of past experience,
students pulled through the week
while having a good time.
“It’s a fun program to be involved in. There are so many different types of people, all with a
love for music in common,” junior
Ali Gerginski said.
Many students are passionate
about being involved with the
band.
“I can’t imagine not being a part
of the band,” junior Jessica Farrelly
said.
“It’s been a big part of my time
here at Westminster,” senior Amber Kunder said. “I’ll definitely
miss it.”
The color guard, like the band,
also has more members than in
past years. The squad has been
working hard this year, especially
since it is a young squad in terms
of experience. Both the guard and
dance line are student-managed
and have written, taught and perfected their routines.
The band is largely led by students because Greig values their
input and includes the officers in
making decisions. The officers include: Erin Thompson, band president; Jennie Smith, vice president;
Ali Gerginksi, secretary; Jess Farrelly, treasurer; and Kevin Shields
and Jon Nickel, field commanders.
“The officers have done an
amazing job with the organization
of band camp and the scheduling
issues for the fall,” Greig said.
Outside of playing at home
games, the band will be making
appearances at local festivals, including the Lawrence County, Mt.
Lebanon and Mercer High School
festivals. “Festivals are important
because there are a lot of participants that may not know our
school,” Greig said.
The band, color guard and
dance line have worked hard to
prepare for the upcoming season.
“I hope the school takes pride in
our quality band. Not too many
schools our size even have a
marching band,” Greig said..
Students contribute to
Obama event in Beaver, Pa.
By Natasha Kassim
Contributing Writer
On Friday, August 29th, seven
students volunteered at the Barack
Obama event in Beaver, PA.
Alexandra Alfieri, Mariella
Volker, Emily Fink, Becky Pappas,
Adam Teeple, Tony Gomez, and
Natasha Kassim arrived at Irvine
Park in Beaver early to help set up
the event, usher guests, register
voters, and other duties.
The students were able to volunteer and then watched as Joe
Biden and Barack Obama, vice
presidential and presidential hopefuls, talked to over 6,000 people
about their goals for America and
outlined their plans to achieve
these goals.
The students were excited to
take part in such a critical moment
in our nation’s history and enjoyed
the experience.
“The speech was amazing. It
provided me with hope for positive
change for our country’s future,”
Alfieri said. “The experience of volunteering showed just how important a role the political realm has
in affecting my life and others’
lives and demonstrated the
amount of dedication and manpower necessary to run such a
large-scale presidential campaign.”
At the event, Obama discussed
his goals of reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil by investing in new green technology; improving our educational system by
providing higher pay for our teachers and making college more affordable; providing middle-class
tax cuts that would reduce taxes
for 95% of Americans; and ensuring America’s reputation in the international realm.
Contributed Photo
Westminster students volunteer at Obama event Firday, August 29. Photographed here
are Mariella Volker, Alexandra Alfieri, Becky Pappas, Natasha Kassim, and Emily Fink.
Photo By Stephanie Chaffee
The Titan marching band practices their drill for upcoming performances.
Drinking Age
en a warning, fine or expulsion. Alcohol paraphernalia like beer
bongs and kegs are not allowed on
campus property.
“I don’t think lowering the
drinking age is a good idea. I think
it will increase problems that already exist with excessive or binge
drinking. In terms of Westminster’s
campus, I think it will increase
DUIs and alcohol poisoning,” senior Reesha Jackson said.
According to USAtoday.com,
Congress voted in 1984 to punish
states that lowered the legal drinking age by confiscating 10 percent
of their federal highway funds.
Current law states that an individual must be 21 years old to pur-
chase and consume alcohol in all
states. Pennsylvania’s legislature
has not publicized any plans to
lower the legal drinking age, but
South Dakota is planning an
initiative that will permit all 18
and 19 year olds to purchase lowalcohol beer. Vermont’s legislature
has proposed to allow individuals
that are 18 years and older to purchase alcohol in bars and restaurants, but not in liquor stores. Kentucky, Wisconsin and South
Carolina are considering permitting all military personnel to drink
regardless of age.
Berlin Lounge before,” Gomez
Continued from Page A-1 said. “It was a blast.”
Jeannette Hubbard of the DiverThose students not scared away sity Department and Kylee Benby the exuberant welcoming com- nett, SGA Diversity Chair, took a
mittee were treated to two hours of risk using a reggae band in place
music with the beats of Rudy and of the standard DJ, and the feedthe Professionals. Senior Tony back concerning the switch was
Gomez believed it was the most positive. Bennett considered the
event to be a huge success having
fun he had had on the campus.
“I have never seen so much en- received much positive feedback.
ergy and so many people in the They are considering doing the
event next year.
“I felt it was Jamaican-me
crazy,” Fresh Start leader Jimmy
Cochran said to excitedly summarize the evening.
This is the largest class in recent years and encompasses of a
large variety of majors, most notably is the addition of nearly 100
biology students who will quickly
become familiar with Hoyt Science
Center.
Continued from Page A-1
According to the Associated
Press, more than 40 percent of college students in the United States
have reported at least one symptom of alcohol abuse or addiction.
Because most students on campus
are under 21 years of age, campus
policy states that no students are
permitted to consume, possess or
serve alcohol, while on campus
property. Both students and employees of the college that violate
this policy will be disciplined according to the College Code of
Conduct.
Depending on the seriousness
of infraction, students may be giv-
Fresh Start
A special thanks...
To Mr. Jim Raykie for all his expert advice and
guidance as The Holcad advisor for 10 years.
-andPhoto By Stephanie Chaffee
The colorguard practices in Orr Lobby on a rainy day. Here Freshman, Nicole Schmalstieg,
Sara Eliser, and Casey Schmidt, and sophomore Danie Dalsass hold an ending pose.
A warm welcome to Mrs. Dee Natale as the new
Holcad advisor. We look forward to working
with you.
B-1 SPORTS - holcad (24”) 20060829cad
YELLOW
0% 5%
5% 10%
10%20%
20%
30%
30%
40%40%
50%50%
60% 60%
70% 80%
70%90%
80%95%
90%100%
95% 100%
MAGENTA
Sports
CYAN
The Holcad
September 5, 2008
Burry stadium welcomes Titan turf
By Amanda Miller
Staff Writer
On Sept. 13, the new field and
stadium will have an official dedication ceremony to open its doors
to football and soccer players and
fans, as well as several intramural
sports teams. The layout and architecture of the new stadium was
a joint venture between the college
and Eckles Architecture of New
Castle.
“We’re excited about the new
look to the stadium. We’ve had a
lot of positive comments—about
playing on it and the look of it,”
James Dafler, athletic director,
said.
The players themselves have
provided much of this positive
feedback.
“The new turf is awesome. It
made a big difference in how our
stadium looks,” football player Jordan Blinn said. “It makes practice
much more enjoyable and is much
more forgiving on our feet and
shins.”
In contrast to grass, turf presents a more uniform playing surface and is also capable of draining
rainwater, allowing players to practice without mud. These advantages allow for greater flexibility in
scheduling games and practices.
Furthermore, because eight of the
Photo by Amanda Miller
A valiant ‘W’ graces the middle of the new turf.
nine other schools in our football
division also have turf, our players
will have the benefit of practicing
on the same surface they will
mostly be playing on.
“The men are extremely excited
to be able to practice on the surface. They feel that the benefit of
working on a constant surface will
enhance their experience as stu-
dent athletes,” Coach Jeffery Hand
said.
One of the few drawbacks to
the new stadium is trying to accommodate all of the people who
want to use it, a situation player
Scott Brucker calls a “good problem,” because it means so many
want to take advantage of this new
facility.
“It is hard to explain, but there
is something about playing in
those muddy, bad weather, hardfought football games that myself
and others are going to miss,”
Brucker said.
Although fans and players may
miss the more traditional playing
field of grass, the turf has ultimately proved advantageous and posi-
tive for the players due to its many
benefits.
Besides the grass, the stadium
also has a new lighting system.
These lights will be used for soccer
night games, as well as for evening
practices. Intramural sports such
as ultimate Frisbee will also be
able to use the stadium in the
evenings with this new lighting
system.
One project that could not be
covered with this year’s budget is
renovations to the bleachers. The
stadium’s seating is not handicap
accessible and still needs some other safety precautions installed, such
as more handrails. Dafler, however, hopes that these changes will
be made in the near future, as the
athletic department budget allows.
Overall, players and coaches
alike are happy with the new turf
and lighting system. Fans can appreciate the new layout and architecture of the stadium as well as
the brightly colored field. This will
allow for football and soccer players, as well as intramural teams, a
better field on which to practice
and play. Turf is easy to maintain
and can be used by many types of
teams.
Men’s and Women’s soccer season kick-off
By Melissa Kramer
By Melissa Kramer
Sports Writer
Sports Writer
Despite a tough loss in the first
round of playoffs last year, the
men’s soccer team returned this
season prepared to work their way
back to the top.
The Titans return 12 letter-winners and seven starters, including
fifth-year senior Garrett Horvath,
seniors Chris Ellwanger and Justin
Rivas, juniors Brice Lott and Justin
Flowers, and sophomores Aaron
Zavora and Mike Codita.
“I believe this year’s team has a
lot more experience on the playing
field compared to last year’s team,”
Flowers said. “We also have a lot
of depth on the bench.”
Preparation for the season included a trip to St. Augustine, Fla.
The team commended the trip as
being beneficial for team bonding,
in addition to priming them for
the season physically.
The Titans hit the field for their
first non-conference game Friday,
Aug. 29 hosting the WestminsterGrove City Soccer Invitational.
Their first game against Mount St.
Joseph resulted in a 5-0 victory.
Although the Titans had a slow
start Saturday against non-conference Point Park, the team walked
away with another win, 4-2.
Photo By Emily Winn
Steve Armahizer goes up for a header Wednesday September 4 against University of Pitts“Two wins are nice to start the
burghBradford. Westminster won with a score of 8-1.
season with, however the level of
competition was not the best we
could have played against,” Ellwanger said. “Even despite the
struggle we had against Point
Dana Griesmer defeated Jess Mal- traveled for a matchup against
Park, we were the better teamand By: Corey Kendall
ly 6-1, 6-1 and sophomore Natalie Chatham. They continued on a roll
Sports Writer
should not have had to fight to
The Lady Titans got the new Hruska knocked off Jessica Kody from the previous match by shutcome back”
season started off right. After two 6-3, 6-1. Sophomore Rachel Jack ting out Chatham with a score of
The Titans compete with matches, they came out with a nearly shut out Melissa Faulkner 9-0.
In the singles competition NewChristopher Newport at the Mari- starting record of 2-0 by shutting posting two sets of 6-0 and 6-1.
On the doubles side of the man and Hruska both shut out
etta College Soccer Classic Satu- out both teams. Although both opponents are in the PAC, neither match, Redhair and Jack defeated their opponents while April Scudrady, September 6.
match counted for PAC standings. Garcia and Kody 8-3. Scudere and ere, Redhair, and Griesmer all
On Friday, Aug. 29, the Lady Ti- Newman took on Mally and came out with wins. Chatham had
tans
off the season with a 9- Horochak coming out with a score to forfeit the sixth match giving
“Two wins are nice 0 winkicked
over Waynesburg. In singles of 8-3. Senior Beth Erwin and Rachel Jack time to rest before
to start the season.” action, Junior April Scudere defeat- Griesmer posted a score of 8-5 doubles action in which she and
Chris Ellwanger, Senior ed Laura Garcia 6-3, 6-1. Fresh- against Carrie Daubert and Andrea Redhair were able to post
man Andrea Redhair won with a Faulkner.
another win. Scudere/Newman
After a win against Waynes- and the Erwin/Lauren Latinovich
score of 6-4, 6-1 while sophomore
Hilary Newman defeated Alexis burg, the Lady Titans had another doubles teams were both able to
Horochak with set scores of 6-0 match just two days later. On Sun- claim a shut out for their doubles
and 6-1. Meanwhile, Freshman day, August 31, the Lady Titans matches.
Tennis dominate first matches
The women’s soccer team
kicked off the season with hopes
of upholding the winning tradition
that has been associated with the
Titans.
Despite the loss of six starters,
two of which were first-team allPAC and all-region selections and
the addition of 11 freshmen to the
roster, the team is confident that
they will have a successful season.
“The freshmen and upperclassmen are all very skilled which
brings the level of play up in practice and also instills a great deal of
competition within the team,” senior Abby Montgomery said. “We
are improving as a team and individually. I am excited to show
what we can do this season.”
Returning starters included seniors Christina Adams, Abby
Montgomery and Jessi Losteter,
junior Lindsey Mellot, and sophomores Sarah Nee and Emily Fitchwell.
“Other teams see what we have
done in the past and expect that
out of us again and again every
year, and we have to live up to it,”
Nee said. “We have a winning tradition and we must continue that
tradition no matter what it takes.”
The preseason preparations included a trip to St. Augustine, Fla.
where the team participated in
two practices a day and running,
in addition to a scrimmage with
Flagler College.
When they weren’t on the field,
the team was able to bond as they
enjoyed such activities as a trip to
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum, a trolley tour of St. Augustine,
and a visit at Myrtle Beach on the
way home.
The first non-conference games
were played Friday, Aug. 29 and
Saturday, Aug. 30. The first game
against Mount St. Joseph resulted
in a 0-1 loss. The Titans bounced
back in their second game with a
6-2 win over Medaille.
The team travels to compete in
the Marietta College Classic where
they will play against Brockport
Saturday, September 6.
Men’s and women’s cross country open with home invitational
By Corey Kendall
Sports Writer
As the school year is starting to
kick into gear, so are the men’s and
women’s cross country teams.
They kicked off the season by hosting the Fisher Invitational, a twenty-four team (11 men’s and 13
women’s) invitational here on campus.
Both the men’s and the
women’s teams did well for their
first meet. The Titan men placed
sixth out of 11 teams with 164
points and the Titan ladies placed
seventh out of 13 teams with 158
points.
On the ladies’ side, junior
Rachel Hudson led the Titans with
a time of 25:16.5 to take 13th-place
in the women's 5-kilometer race.
Junior Elizabeth Beardsley was
able to claim 27th place with fa
time of 26:24.2, while sophomore
Jasmine Grady placed 33rd by
clocking 26:20.7. Freshman Jennifer Krueger took 41st with a time
of 27:16.5 followed by junior
Amanda Everett with a 44th place
time of 27:41.1.
Leading the Titan men was
freshman Morgan Hanes with an
eighth place time of 28:34.5 in the
men’s 8-kilometer course. Junior
Jeremiah Patterson took 34th with
BLACK
a time of 30:46.6. Senior Aaron Titus claimed 38th with a time of
31:11.9 while Junior Nate Hunter
followed close behind with a 40th
place time of 31:27.0. “Fisher was a
good race to get our feet wet,”
Hunter said. “We got a mark, so
now we can try to go out and improve on that.”
“Coach has a training plan that
is focused on PACs in November,”
Hudson said. “So our goal is for all
of us to reach our potential at the
end of the semester, grow in our
experiences together and stay
healthy!”
The Titans are looking forward
to a great season and will be back
on the course at Penn StateBehrend on Saturday, September
13.
Page B-1
The Facts
about Phelps
Brandon Phillian
Sports Editor
Dissecting the NFL’s opening
weekend and previewing the college football season are usually my
top two choices to write about in
my first column of the year. Sure,
I love making predictions about
the Dallas Cowboys winning the
Super Bowl and the Ohio St. Buckeyes beating USC, but this year I
could not pass up the opportunity
to write about the greatest athletic
performance I have witnessed in
my entire life.
Watching Michael Phelps dominate the pool, although even that is
vastly understated, was the greatest athletic and Olympic performance I have ever seen.
It was not just that Phelps won,
but rather how he won. Setting
world records in seven of his eight
victories answers all questions of
whether or not the field Phelps
competed against was full of weak
competition.
His performance was not singular and individual, but rather diversified and about the team. I
may be wrong, but the most excited I saw Phelps throughout the
course of the Olympics was not
when he blew away the field in
world record time en route to gold
in the 200m IM. No, Phelps was
most excited when teammate Jason Lezak brought home the gold
medal for the Phelps-led 4x100m
freestyle relay.
Beyond the performance,
Phelps is not arrogant, self-centered or flashy; he is humble,
poised and a role model for every
child who watched the games. In
an age where so many superstar
athletes are either involved in legal
trouble or are poor ambassadors
to their sport, Phelps again proves
to be extraordinary.
Although Phelps achieved milestones in Beijing, still people argue
that he is not the greatest
Olympian of all-time. What
Phelps did surpasses any performance that someone gave to win
an NFL or NBA title because winning a title in any league means
that you are the champion of that
league in which you won.
While being a league champion
is incredible in its own right,
Phelps is not just a league champion, he is a world champion. Taking this into consideration, that
narrows our field to Olympic athletes and Olympic moments.
There is no doubt that Carl
Lewis and Mark Spitz are incredible athletes, or that the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” was an incredible performance. As exciting as the U.S.
hockey team defeating Russia was,
the final result was a single gold
medal; a great feat that seems
somewhat minute compared to
the eight gold medals garnered by
Phelps.
Some experts argue that Phelps
must pass Spitz in overall medal
count to truly supplant him. Luckily for Spitz, personality is not a
factor. If personality counted,
Phelps would be a runaway from
Spitz. Even so, the argument is for
the greatest athletic performance
of all-time. The facts are Phelps
won eight gold medals in a single
games and Spitz’s best effort yielded seven. Case closed.
The closest athletic performance to Phelps is the efforts of
Lewis. The reason Lewis can be
compared to Phelps is the diversity
Lewis displayed by dominating in
the long jump, as well as the
sprints. However, Lewis did not
dominate the way Phelps did nor
did he win a number of medals
even close to Phelps.
While the summer was filled
with incredible moments in the
world sports, like the extra-inning
MLB all-star game, this summer
belonged to one man; this was the
summer of Michael Phelps.
Inside EVEN page - holcad (24”) 20060829cad
YELLOW
0% 5%
5% 10%
10%20%
20%
30%
30%
40%40%
50%50%
60% 60%
70% 80%
70%90%
80%95%
90%100%
95% 100%
Page B-2
MAGENTA
September 5, 2008
CYAN
BLACK
The Holcad — Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.
Arts & Entertainment
I was aglow. I was aloft. I was
eccentric and electric.
To me, Radiohead has always
been a band that beckons an understanding deeper than the music
they create. Their mystique and
idiosyncracies have represented
more than blips and bleeps on a
widespread musical map. Radiohead represent an intelligent creativity, both mysterious and illuminating.
I wish to preserve the happenings of the night of Aug. 4, 2008 in
a glass jar, sealed tight with a small
hammer, canned, and placed upon
my mantle, or perhaps under my
bed to be removed and smelled in
the fullness of phenomenon and
emotion. Or maybe sealed up in
amber, like those ancient mosquitoes.
Blossom Music Center was sold
out, packed and brimming, smoking and gently seething on the hill
beside and under the trees and
pavilion respectively, adorned in
wood paneling, stained to a ma-
Chris Lehberger
A&E Editor
hogany red, which was beautiful.
My seat was dead center under the
pavilion, three rows behind the
sound board.
When Radiohead took the
stage, amid a candelabra of shimmering pipes hanging from the
ceiling, there was an eruption of
cheering. A goofy smile was plastered on my face as the band
struck up “15 Step.”
With that, there is much to say
about the minimalistic qualities of
the band’s recordings, but live,
everything is magnified and capacious, the atmosphere much richer
with resonation as everything
blends wonderfully. Equally as en-
gaging was Thom Yorke’s vocals
which cut succinctly through the
layers of sound. And not once did
I hear a bad note.
The band worked through a
massive 23 songs, playing much of
In Rainbows with an equal mishmash from their previous releases.
Yorke danced and caroused his
way through “National Anthem,”
his eccentric step and swing complemented by the musical kaleidoscope from guitarist/sampler Jonny
Greenwood,
whose
arrangements of delay and electronics echoed brilliantly against
the maddening crowd of over
20,000.
Drummer Phil Selway found
me with a new appreciation for his
drumming, which I’ve always rendered as simplistic. Live, however,
his often a-rhythmic stylings and
beats work splendidly. Much can
also be said for the fantastic light
show which never repeated a color
scheme or pattern, supplementing
each song independently. Notable
performances included “Street
Spirit”, and the highlight of my
night with “Idioteque,” convulsing
the crowd into one amalgamated
mass, and “All I Need” hushing the
crowd with an ambience like a
thick lavender blanket.
One lacking characteristic was
the crowd which seemingly didn’t
sing along at all; perhaps because
everyone was in awe, or perhaps
because they didn’t want to miss a
thing, such as I. However, when
the first notes of “Paranoid Android” struck out, the crowd assembled to the ranks, and voices could
be heard singing out loudly, “God
loves his children, God loves his
children.”
After two encores and about
two hours, the band closed the
night with “Everything In Its Right
Place,” a closer that not only allowed for an appropriately long
and filling ending, but also fell
along archetypal lines, closing out
one of the most important musical
landmarks in my life, as each
Photo from www.media.canada.com
member left the stage with a wave
until Colin Greenwood stood up
from his pedal board leaving a
loop to play out until the house
lights came on and everyone started home under the stars with
everything in its right place.
Chris is a Senior public relations major who’s addicted
to LOST and the Office, and
despite being a writing minor, can't finish books. Or
sing. At all.
Billy Joel is more than just the piano man
By Ben Portz
A&E Writer
This summer was a momentous time for rock legend Billy Joel.
Yes, Billy Joel, the guy that many
people think only wrote “Piano
Man” and then dropped off the
face of the earth.
Truth is, Joel did not become
nationally known for his Piano
Man album when it was first released in 1973, but rather in the
summer of 1977 when he came
out with the mega hit album The
Stranger. This record was such a
hit that it replaced Simon and Gar-
funkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water album for bestselling record of
all time for Columbia Records.
So why was it a momentous
summer for Joel? There was celebration for this record by releasing
a remastered 30th anniversary edition of The Stranger plus a live
recording, which had never been
released, of Joel playing at the legendary Carnegie Music Hall in
New York City in the summer of
1977 prior to the release of the new
album. To top off the summer, Joel
played two huge shows at Shea
Stadium, home of the New York
Mets, before it closed down.
In the four albums before The
Stranger, Joel had trouble finding a
producer and musicians that
would work well with him. In
many cases, he had to produce the
records himself, such as his Turnstiles album, and use studio musicians. The studio musicians were
good, but like any band just
thrown together, they didn’t gel.
By 1977, Joel found his own musicians and was discovered by producer Phil Ramone.
The Stranger starts off with an
up-tempo “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s
Song)” about an Italian family
where the mother decided it was
time for her son to get out and
make it on his own. The title track,
“The Stranger,” is about the different faces that we put on for different people and how frustrated that
makes us. “Just The Way You Are”
was originally a song that was not
supposed to be on the album, until
a couple of Joel’s girlfriends
stopped by the studio during the
recording and insisted that they
loved the song and it had to be on
the record. He actually wrote it because he needed another song to
fill up the album. As it turns out, it
was the biggest single from the album, and to this day, it is one of
the most played wedding songs.
Another highlight is the controversial “Only the Good Die Young”
about Joel seducing a Catholic girl
The sounds of summer: Vampire Weekend’s eclectic
first album
Levi Sanchez
A&E Writer
Photo from www.amazon.com
I picked up Vampire Weekend’s
self-titled debut from a Barnes and
Noble store in Fort Collins, Colorado where I spent the summer.
Though I heard their single “APunk” this winter when the album
was released, it wasn’t until this
June, spurred by a $9.99 CD sale,
that I actually bought the album.
Rarely departing from an upbeat
tempo, Vampire Weekend made a
perfect sonic backdrop to the sunny skies of Colo. The members of
Vampire Weekend, graduates of
the Ivy League Columbia University in NYC, blend contemporary
African pop, classical music, and
Indie rock into a widely appealing
brand of intelligent pop music.
Think Paul Simon’s Graceland album, Mozart, and Devo and you’ll
get close to their sound.
In addition to the intensely
catchy “A-Punk,” songs like “Oxford Comma” (the most upbeat
song you’ll ever hear the “F word”
in) stay in your head in the best of
ways. I often found myself singing
lines like “Blake’s got a new face”
and “Li’l John, he always tells the
truth” in the shower. Ezra Koenig
sings about almost anything:
sweaters, Mansard roofs (like Westminster’s own Thompson-Clark),
the Dalai Lama, and, of course,
vampires. Yet somehow it seems
perfectly natural for Koenig to
segue from singing about the
haven of exiled Tibetan Buddhists
into a declaration of the rapper Li’l
John’s integrity. In “Campus,” the
only song that saved my sanity at
Hollister where I worked for the
summer, Ezra laments the end of
his affair with a professor. Musically, the electric organ bops around
with the driving drum beat as the
guitar ascends a scale and Ezra
croons. In “Cape Cod Kwassa
Kwass,” Koenig paints the picture
of the monotony of life in that af-
fluent Massachusetts community.
The polyrhythmic percussion in
the background compliments the
simple, but catchy guitar riff. Songs
like “M79” and “Bryn” most obviously reflect the band’s classical influences with strings and an electric harpsichord backing the clean
guitar.
Overall, despite the band’s wildly different influences, they forge it
all into a cohesive whole that remains accessible. As a nod to their
wide appeal, they’ve been invited
to play SNL and some of the
largest festivals in the world this
summer and caught the attention
of the press. Their wonderfully
unique videos even squeeze their
way into MTV’s rap-saturated
video lineup. I suspect that this initial success is only the beginning of
a lasting career. For my money, all
$9.99 of it, Vampire Weekend
makes the grade.
Back in high school when I was
somewhat of a metalcore fanatic, a
band called Norma Jean caught
my attention with a monumental
album. Six years and many lineup
changes later, the band has reinvented itself once again with the
release of The Anti Mother.
Prior to this record, I have been
unsatisfied with this band’s work
since the departure of vocalist Josh
Scogin to form the fellow Solid
State Records band, The Chariot.
Sure Cory Putman is a great replacement and he brought a new
dimension to the vocals of the
band’s newer material, but the
band turned to a more mathcoreoriented style which sounded very
repetitive to me.
Then came The Anti Mother,
which mixes elements from all of
the band’s previous albums together into a groove-driven metal masterpiece. The songs seem more
well-constructed overall than any
Max’s Rating:
Photo from www.amazon.com
of the band’s prior work. I love
every part of this record from beginning to end.
I was worried when the news
broke of the departure of original
drummer, Daniel Davison. I did
not think that any drummer could
fit the part. Luckily, to my surprise,
newcomer Chris Raines, who also
plays for Spitfire, fit in perfectly
with the new direction the band
has taken. His rhythms and fills
are far less technical than Davison’s, but his style compliments the
rest of the band far better than I
Rock out with your
favorite artists at these
upcoming local shows!
6: You The Symphony @ WC: Berlin Lounge: 9:00
pm
7: Three Doors Down @ Post-Gazette: 6:30
20: RC Static CD Release @ Mr. Smalls: 7:00 pm
23: New Found Glory @ Mr. Smalls: 6:30 pm
24: Chiodos w/ Person L @ Mr. Smalls: 6:30 pm
26: My Favorite Highway @ Strummers: 6:30 pm
27: Punchline CD Release @ Diesel: 7:00 pm
October:
Photo from artclecticacademic.files.wordpress.com
Norma Jean reinvents itself
A&E Writer
Concert Calendar:
September:
Levi’s Rating:
By Max Muska
which led to the song being walking legend giving the people
banned by Seton Hall University. what they want, and yes, still closJoel claimed that banning his ing his shows with “Piano Man”.
record actually helped sales because college kids love to hear
what they “aren’t allowed to hear”.
My favorite track off the album is
called “Vienna”. This introspective
masterpiece is about life and how
it’s never too late to get what you
want and do something worthy
with your life.
So despite not having a new
rock album in fifteen years, Joel is
still touring, selling out concerts,
and playing all the songs that people love to hear. He doesn’t need
new songs. At this point, he’s a
Phioto from www.billyjoel.com
ever imagined it would.
The first track, “Vipers, Snakes,
and Actors,” is by far the most
chaotic on the album. Instruments
suddenly drop out or return and
the tempo changes unexpectedly.
Still, a steady groove is present
throughout the song, as is the case
with most of the other tracks. This,
along with Putman’s more prominent singing voice, gives the record
a catchy sound.
This change in vocal style is
most evident on “Robots 3 Humans 0.” Putman sings throughout
the majority of the track, making it
the band’s most catchy song to
date. Another component of the
song that is different for the band
is its use of a standard verse, chorus, and verse format.
The album’s best track by far is
“Surrender Your Sons…” This
track is reminiscent of the song
“Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste”
on Bless the Martyr, Kiss the Child
which featured collaboration with
Aaron Weiss of mewithoutyou.
This time around the band collabo-
rated with Chino Moreno of the
Deftones and Cove Reber of
Saosin. The guests contributed vocals and aided in the writing
process of the track. Putman’s vocals are barely heard behind
Moreno’s and Reber’s.
The guest artists also contributed their songwriting skills to
some of the album’s other tracks,
including “Robots 3 Humans 0”
and “Murphy Was an Optimist.”
Page Hamilton of the band Helmet
is another guest vocalist on “The
Opposite of Left and Wrong.” The
guests on this album add a great
deal to its uniqueness.
I have not listened to anything
else since this album came out last
week. I just play it over and over
on my iTunes and my mp3 player.
Norma Jean has truly created a
masterpiece that should aid them
in getting a new and improved
record deal now that their contract
with Solid State has ended. I cannot wait to hear what the next step
in the band’s evolution will be.
4: Emarosa @ Strummers: 6:15 pm
8: Maylene and the Sons of Disaster @ Mr. Smalls:
6:30 pm
10: All Time Low @ Gravity: 7:00 pm
12: Relient K @ Club Zoo: 7:00 pm
14: Once Nothing @ Mr. Smalls: 7:00 pm
15: Family Force 5 @ Diesel: 7:00 pm
16: VersaEmerge w/ Eye Alaska @ Diesel: 7:00 pm
17: A Cursive Memory @ Diesel: 6:00 pm
18. Cali AC CD Release @ Diesel: 6:00 pm
20: Atmosphere @ Mr. Smalls: 8:00 pm
21: NOFX @ Club Zoo: 7:00 pm
21: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah @ Brillobox: 8:00 pm
25: Matisyahu @ Mr. Smalls: 8:00 pm
28: Anberlin w/ Straylight Run @ Mr.Smalls: 7:00
pm
29: Underoath w/ Saosin @ Gravity: 7:00 pm
November:
3: Pierce The Veil @ Strummers: 7:00 pm
5. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists @ Diesel: 7:00 pm
5: Norma Jean w/ Haste The Day @ Mr. Smalls: 7:00
pm
9: 3OH!3 @ Diesel: 7:00 pm
10: Mest @ Strummers: 7:00 pm
13: Senses Fail w/ Dance Gavin Dance @ Diesel: 7:00
pm
21: Cobra Starship @ Diesel: 7:00 pm
22: Hawthorne Heights @ The Rex: 6:30 pm
22: Frank Caliendo @ The Benedum: 8:30 pm
Inside EVEN page - holcad (24”) 20060829cad
YELLOW
0% 5%
5% 10%
10%20%
20%
30%
30%
40%40%
50%50%
60% 60%
70% 80%
70%90%
80%95%
90%100%
95% 100%
The Holcad — Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
SGA
First-Year Elections (MCC TUB)
11:40 AM
Chapel (Wallace Memorial Chapel)
11:45 AM
Alpha Phi
Omega Exec. Meeting (MCC 255
Weisel Conference Room)
5:00 PM Volleyball @ BaldwinWallace
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Kick-Off Picnic (MCC
Club/Lounge)
SAA
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
SGA
First-Year Elections (MCC TUB)
8:00 PM
Movie in
Mueller: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (MCC Mueller)
9:00 PM
Volleyball @
Case Western Reserve (at Baldwin-Wallace)
10:00 PM - 2:00 AM
CPC
Presents Gateway Clipper
Cruise/Semi-Formal Dance (Pittsburgh -- Transportation Provided
10:30 PM
Movie in
Mueller: Baby Mama (MCC
Mueller Theater)
BLACK
Page B-3
CROSSWORD
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 4:00 PM WOMEN'S TENNIS v.
Chatham*
Last Day to DROP a Course (returning and transfer students
6:00 PM Habitat for Humanity
3:00 PM Women's Soccer @
only)
Chapter Meeting (MCC Mueller
Brockport (at Marietta)
Theater)
4:00 PM Volleyball @ Allegheny Last Day to Request an Audit or
S/U Grade
6:15 PM Japanese Anime Club
(at Baldwin-Wallace)
(Thompson-Clark 210)
Career Center
7:00 PM Mass (Wallace Memorial 12:30 PM
Hosts "Let's Do Lunch" with Ohio 7:00 PM Gospel Choir (Wallace
Chapel
Northern Pettit School of Law
Memorial Chapel)
8:00 PM Movie in Mueller: Baby (MCC Club)
8:00 PM Allies Meeting (ThompMama (MCC Mueller Theater)
5:00 PM Chapel Staff Meeting
son-Clark 314)
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Ti(Old Main 213)
8:00 PM Newman Club Exec.
tan's Tavern (MCC Club/Lounge)
8:30 PM Mortar Board Meeting
Meeting (MCC 352 Wile Confer10:30 PM
Movie in
(MCC Mueller Theater)
ence Room)
Mueller: Forgetting Sarah Mar9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Late 8:30 PM Fellowship of Christian
shall (MCC Mueller Theater)
Night at Westminster (MCC
Athletes Meeting (MCC WitherSunday, September 7, 2008 Club/Lounge)
spoon Maple)
2:00 PM
Volleyball @
Alma (at Baldwin-Wallace)
TBA
Men's Soccer @ Walsh
or Marietta (at Marietta)
9:30 PM Newman Club Meeting
(MCC WItherspoon Maple)
9:00 PM Lambda Sigma Meeting
(MCC Mueller Theater)
TBA
Women's Soccer @
Walsh or Marietta (at Marietta)
Wednesday, September 10,
2008
3:00 PM Movie in Mueller: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (MCC
Mueller Theater)
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
College Rings Display/Purchase Day
(MCC TUB)
9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Late
Night at Westminster (MCC
Club/Lounge)
7:00 PM Vespers (Wallace Memo- 4:00 PM Women's Tennis @ Alrial Chapel)
legheny
9:00 PM Movie in Mueller: Baby
Mama (MCC Mueller Theater)
5:15 PM CPC Meeting (MCC
Club)
Saturday, September 6,
2008
Monday, September 8, 2008 7:00 PM SGA Meeting (MCC
Mueller Theater)
11:40 AM
Chapel (WalTBA
Women's Tennis @
lace Memorial Chapel)
9:30 PM Seekers Fellowship
Thomas More*
(MCC Berlin Lounge)
12:00 PM
Holcad Meet9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
ing (MCC 255 Weisel Conference Thursday, September 11,
Alumni Council Meeting (Various
Room)
2008Rooms in McKelvey Campus Center)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Audi- 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Coltions for Once Upon a Mattress
lege Rings Display/Purchase Day
9:00 AM
Community
(Beeghly Theater)
(MCC TUB)
Shrub Planting at McClure Run
(Meet at Softball Field)
7:30 PM Praise Team Practice
11:00 AM
Support Staff
(Wallace Memorial Chapel)
Meeting
with
President
Dorman
1:00 PM
Men's Soccer
(MCC Club
@ Christopher Newport (at Mari- 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Late
etta)
Night at Westminster (MCC
12:45 PM
IFC Meeting
Club/Lounge)
(Memorial
Field
House)
1:30 PM
Football @
Heidelberg
Friday, September 12, 2008
11:40 AM
Chapel (Wallace Memorial Chapel)
11:45 AM
Alpha Phi
Omega Exec. Meeting (MCC 255
Weisel Conference Room)
3:30 PM VOLLEYBALL v. Muskingum (Volley Against Violence
Tournament)
4:00 PM Men's Soccer @ PittGreensburg
7:00 PM VOLLEYBALL v. Capital
(Volley Against Violence Tournament)
8:00 PM CPC Presents Chad Perrone (MCC Club/Lounge)
8:00 PM Movie in Mueller: Get
Smart (MCC Mueller Theater)
10:30 PM
Movie in
Mueller: Sex and the City (MCC
Mueller Theater)
HOROSCOPE
CROSSWORD ANSWER
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
You're moving into a favorable
cycle for your love life. Even if it's
been steady, it's about to get more
interesting. Some relationships
deepen, and heavy ones get light.
So it all works well for you and requires very little effort. The most
challenging part will be not to interfere with what's working.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
You are ultra-responsible for
the people around you, making
sure that they not only get their basic needs met, but that they are
also able to pursue what makes
them happy. Do the same for yourself. When you dedicate time to
your pet project, you're being altruistic, as it helps keep you emotionally strong.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Your tasks are laid out for you.
By Thursday you'll feel that you've
delivered the hard work, but
there's still a mountain more of it
to do. Before you continue to hammer away at it, take a breather.
There's nothing so pressing that it
can't be put off while you attend to
what's really important -- having
some fun.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
You sometimes work like a reliable machine, but that doesn't
mean you are one. You need
breaks just like everyone else. And
more than that, you need to be invested in what you're working toward. Where there is no incentive,
except for a paycheck, ask for one.
You deserve more and you'll get it.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
You'll be entering new arenas,
and they are tricky indeed. The interpersonal dynamics are intricate
and complicated. You're not shy,
but you know when it behooves
you to be a silent observer, offering
information on a need-to-know basis. Ultimately you'll garner a great
deal of amusement out of this situation.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
There will be a breakthrough
in regards to a relationship struggle. It turns out, the other person
doesn't need to change at all in order for you to be happy. You decide
to be happy with things as they
are, and the change you've wanted
will come along in its own time -and more quickly than you
thought.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
Details, details … what should
you do? If you watch them too
closely, your mind gets tight and
uncreative. Ignore them, and
CYAN
September 5, 2008
CALENDAR
Friday, September 5, 2008
MAGENTA
things are not beautifully specific
as they could be, or they just plain
fall apart. Luckily, the universe
gifts you with perfect balance. You
instinctively know the correct degree to magnify your focus.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
It seems like lately there's always someone who thinks he or
she knows better than you do
about what you should do next. It's
unlikely, though not impossible,
that this person will give you advice you can actually act on to win
the prize. Listen only to the superinformed and your inner guidance
system.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21).
You will definitely be affected
by the unspoken rules of your
community, as well as the actual
written laws and policies governing your part of the world. None of
this should be taken personally or
given obsessive focus. The thing
that has the most impact is your
self-talk, which you have complete
control over.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19)
. You're unraveling puzzles just
to see how they were put together.
You might make a mess doing this
-- the kind that's not so easy to put
back together. And if the puzzle in
question is a human being, you
can never take back your prodding
questions. So be mindful and sensitive in your quest for knowledge.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18).
You still have some trepidation
about a new relationship, but
there's no need to worry. Everything that's happening will be
helpful to your development as a
human, and some of it will be fun,
to boot. Friday brings the ideal moment to open up that big heart of
yours and let someone in to a
greater degree.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
You're learning when to say
"yes." You just have a feeling that
it's right, and so you do it. Early in
the week, helping others only
takes a few minutes. But by Friday
there's a whole production involved with your generosity. Doing
what you think you should be doing isn't half as productive as doing what you want to do.
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS
Happiness is a matter of taking
care of business this year. You're
like a dutiful partner to the universe. You're given your weekend
list of chores and you fix what
needs fixing. Only it doesn't take a
weekend -- you'll spend much of
the fall on this endeavor, and it's
actually quite an interesting and
often joyful pursuit. What you get
in return is an unparalleled sense
of peace and belonging. October is
about money and choosing wisely
where to spend the extra. Family
additions come in January.
SUDOKU
6
7
8
1
4
5
9
8
6
6
1
5
2
9
7
4
9
8
6
3
1
7
3
6
2
1
7
1
6
2
Across
1 Heroic Account
5 Cleo wooer
9 Win by a mile
13 Make ringlets
14 Brief role
15 Chesapeake and _____
16 Outspoken
17 New York city
18 Dorothy’s barker
19 Basker’s acquisition
20 Clock or clause
22 Hold off
24 Adherent
25 Show subservience
27 Free - lance journalist
32 Mellow
33 Clobber
34 Dawn _____ Chong
35 Antiquer’s aid
36 A line and sack dress
37 Matter for Mason
38 Chooser’s word
39 Count named William
40 McCoy to Kirk
41 Striking in appearance
43 Sizeable sum
44 Mug filler
45 Sea swallows
46 Rose Kennedy to John. Jr.
51 Variety headline word
54 Sounded
55 Monastery head
56 Klinger on M*A*S*H*
57 Force in King novels
58 Arena reactions
59 Eminently draftable
60 ______ E. Coyote
61 You Are Love composer
62 Whirlpool
Down
1 Mary Stuart, e.g.
2 Nimbus
3 La Scala production
4 One’s partner
5 Asian archipelago
6 Sunday closing
7 Study
8 Verifies
9 Bad to the core
10 I forsee trouble!
11 Little bit
12 On one’s uppers
14 Bead material
20 Singer Campbell
21 Tilted
23 From here to eternity
25 Wonderful
26 Severity
27 Unwilling to yield
28 Shredded
29 Fan placement
30 Salon support
31 Teammate of Hodges and
Robinson
33 Rosita’s “Sure!”
36 Gold place symbol
37 Billy, of ring fame
39 Like Abdul Jabbar, e.g.
40 Actor involved in 37 Across
42 Laundry appliance
43 Borscht ingredients
45 Prickly subject?
46 Gained weight
47 Shankar
48 Indigo source
49 Rackett kin
50 Vail conveyor
52 Bugged
53 Dental aid
56 The other side
Back of Section A - holcad (24”) 20060829cad
0% 5%
5% 10%
10%20%
20%
30%
30%
40%40%
50%50%
60% 60%
70% 80%
70%90%
80%95%
90%100%
95% 100%
Page B-4
September 5, 2008
YELLOW
MAGENTA
CYAN
BLACK
The Holcad — Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.
Features
It’s a fresh start - get involved
Whether you are a freshman,
sophomore, junior or even a senior,
this semester is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. The beginning of the year is the best time to
try new things, and getting involved is a great way to do just
that.
Although it can sometimes be a Megan Hoffman
Features Editor
little stressful, being involved on
campus has taught me how to be
responsible. I have learned how to
juggle multiple activities, meetings, same day or even in the same year,
and assignments. Also, it has given but in order to get involved, you
me the opportunity to meet a lot of have to start somewhere.
great people on campus.
Now, I’m not saying that you
need
to go out tomorrow and signAs a senior and thinking back
up
for
every club offered. I am sayon my experiences here, I could
ing
that
with more than 100 clubs
not imagine what my college career would have been like if I had and activities, I’m sure you can find
chosen not to get involved. Cur- at least one group that has somerently, I am involved in about ten thing that might interest you. The
campus clubs and activities. How- key is to find the right balance beever, my involvement does not end tween academic clubs, social clubs,
with just being a member. I have and sports.
become more involved by holding
Below are a few tips that will
leadership positions, ranging from help you get involved and find the
PR chair to treasurer, in more than right balance between your varihalf of these organizations. I did ous activities.
not join all of these groups on the
First, look into joining a group
related to your major. It is the major you chose, so it should be
something you enjoy doing. If you
are an elementary education major, consider helping out with tutoring at one of the area schools. If
you are a biology major, maybe
the Pre-Vet Society is for you.
Second, look into joining a
group related to your interests or
talents. With the election quickly
approaching, the College Democrats or College Republicans might
be a good group to join. Or maybe
you like playing sports and being
active. Several sports such as hockey, Ultimate Frisbee, and archery
are clubs that you can join simply
As a public relations major, the for the love of the sport.
Public Relations Student Society of
America was one of the first
Since I have taken dance my
groups I joined as a freshman. My entire life, Dance Theatre was one
involvement in the group has since of the first groups that I was really
allowed me to further my profes- interested in joining. I attended the
sional development by listening to informational meeting, joined the
speakers, taking field trips to see group, went to the practices and
local PR jobs, and networking with tried out to be in some of the
those in my field. I have also had dances. Now, three years later, I
the opportunity to hold a leader- have been in a half dozen dances
ship role in the organization, which and have even had the chance to
gave me more of an opportunity to choreograph my own dance. Being
share my thoughts on how the or- a member of Dance Theatre has
ganization should be run. Of had a huge impact on my college
course joining a major-specific or- experience and all it took was a litganization looks good on your re- tle bit of interest and the opportusume, but you are also given the nity to get involved.
opportunity to do things outside of
A nice thing about the clubs at
the classroom and gain some
Westminster
is that most of them
hands-on experience.
accept members with a wide range
of talent, skill, and ability. Definitely make the best of this opportunity to join a club to do something
you enjoy or something that you
have always wanted to try. Even if
you aren’t an expert, you can still
have fun! As long as you find
something you are interested in
you have no excuse not to get involved.
Third, look into joining a group
that gives you a chance to make
changes here at Westminster. One
of the worst things you can do is to
sit around complaining about the
way things are done. If you are unhappy about something at the college, you have the opportunity to
make a difference. The Student
Government Association is the
perfect example of a group you
can join to improve not only yours,
but the whole campus’ college experience. Joining SGA gets you involved in a wide range of activities
from planning campus events,
such as Volley Rock and A Shot at
Love, to acting as liaisons between
the students and the administrators. Another club that allows stu-
dents to have a say in what happens here is the Campus Programming Council, which helps bring in
weekend entertainment. For years
I have heard students complain
about the lack of activities over the
weekends. Instead of complaining,
join CPC, SGA, or similar clubs.
By joining activities, you will
open up a wide-range of opportunities for yourself. The experiences
you will gain, the friends you will
make, and the memories you will
have by joining organizations at
Westminster will last well beyond
your college years.
Megan is a senior public relations major who is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority and Dance Theater. When
she’s not breaking her foot,
she can most likely be found
in the TUB or creeping on
Facebook.
Candid campus: Our favorite scenes from last week
Photo by Danielle McCullough
Contributed Photo
Senior Amber Okert stops for a break while moving into her room, good thing she had a
Senior Liz Suders gives kisses to her new puppy as it sits inside Danielle McCulplace
to sit.
lough’s trophy at the activities Fair Thursday Aug. 28.
WC CRIBS
This week features editor Megan Hoffman showcases her own
cozy crib, townhouse #5
Megan and her roommates love
their new townhouse. They have chosen bright colors to accent their new
bedrooms.
The closet, on the left, is exteremly well organized.
Right: Jenna Rosenbauer’s
room is very colorful. She is always surrounded pictures of her
many friends, which she displays in a perftect grid.
Left: The lovely roomates of The Holcad’s
feature editor, Megan
Hoffman, are proud of
their townhouse: Larissa Fortna, Jenn Byers,
and Jenna Rosenbauer
Right: The living
room looks like a nice
and cozy place to study
or to hang out and
watch a movie.
Reasons to stay on
campus this weekend
Friday:
Go out to dinner before going to the
Clipper Cruise or grab some popcorn
shrimp in the TUB
CPC Presents the Gateway Clipper
Cruise/Semi-Formal Dance
Movies: Forgetting Sarah Marshall and
Baby Mama
Saturday:
Titan’s Tavern, featuring You the Symphony
Movies: Baby Mama and Forgetting
Sarah Marshall
Check out the new Stadium/ Football
field
Take an afternoon walk around campus
Go to Pizza Joes and try a Wedgie
Sunday:
Movies: Forgetting Sarah Marshall and
Baby Mama
Take an afternoon nap
Visit the Library
Be studious, do your homework
If you know of any weekend activities worthy of
staying put and want it to be included in The Holcad,
please contact Features Editor, Megan Hoffman at
[email protected]